leafy vegetable vs sorrel

sorrel vs leafy vegetable

leafy vegetable and sorrel both are nouns.

leafy vegetable is not an adjective while sorrel is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
leafy vegetable	Yes	No	No	No
sorrel	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, sorrel is a hyponym of leafy vegetable; that is, sorrel is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than leafy vegetable:

leafy vegetable: any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables
sorrel: large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces

Other hyponyms of leafy vegetable include chop-suey greens, sprout, beet green, chard, leaf beet, spinach beet, Swiss chard, salad green, salad greens, dandelion green, lamb's-quarter, pigweed, wild spinach, wild spinach, turnip greens, common sorrel, French sorrel, spinach.

leafy vegetable (noun)	sorrel (noun)
any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables	a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color
	large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces
	any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine
	any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis
	East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber

leafy vegetable (adjective)	sorrel (adjective)
	of a light brownish color

Difference between leafy vegetable and sorrel

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